# Out of the Past (1998)

English · Released 1998-07-31

Out of the Past is a 1998 English film. Gwyneth Paltrow appears in it.

Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow as Sarah Orne Jewett (voice)

## Storyline
In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."

## Common questions

### When was Out of the Past released?
Out of the Past was released on 31 July 1998.

### Who stars in Out of the Past?
Gwyneth Paltrow star in Out of the Past.

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